Information Processing System and Network Logging Information Processing Method

1. A computer-readable recording medium storing a network logging processing program to be executed in a computer of an information processing system including a memory and an external storage having a user's area and a system area, the network logging processing program is for collecting communication information in the system, wherein the program enables the computer to function as: means for, upon receiving a network logging activation instruction, determining whether memory dump information that contains information of the memory at the time of system freezing occurred is stored in the system area, determining whether information for specifying a file for storing collected communication information designated by the network logging activation instruction matches with information for specifying a file for writing communication information collected by network logging at the time of the system freezing contained in the memory dump information, and determining whether both communication information recorded in a network logging file stored in the user's area and communication information contained in the memory dump information are information collected at the same network logging process; means for copying the network logging file to the system area in the case where it is determined that each of the conditions are satisfied; means for writing the communication information contained in the memory dump information to the copied network logging file; and means for restoring the network logging file at the time of system freezing.

2. An information processing system including a memory, an external storage having a user's area and a system area, and a network logging processing unit collecting communication information in the system, the network logging processing unit comprising: a processing unit that receives a network logging activation instruction, and determines, when the network logging activation instruction is received, whether memory dump information that is information of the memory at the time system freezing occurred exists in the system area, whether information that specifies a file for storing collected communication information designated by the network logging activation instruction matches with information contained in the memory dump information that specifies a file for storing communication information collected by network logging at the time of the system freezing, and whether both communication information recorded in a network logging file stored in the user's area and communication information contained in the memory dump information are collected at the same network logging process; a copying unit capable of copying the network logging file to the system area in the case where it is determined that the given conditions are satisfied; a writing unit that writes the communication information contained in the memory dump information to the copied network logging file; and a restoring unit that restores the network logging file at the time of system freezing.

3. An automatic network logging information moving method performed by an information processing system including a memory, an external storage having a user's area and a system area, and a network logging processing unit for collecting communication information in the system, the method comprising: determining, by the network logging processing unit, whether or not to satisfy each of conditions that, memory dump information that contains information on the memory at the time of system freezing is stored in the system area, information for specifying a file for storing collected communication information designated by the network logging activation instruction matches with information contained in the memory dump information for specifying a file for storing that writes communication information collected by the network logging at the time of occurrence of system freezing, and both of the communication information recorded in a network logging file stored in the user's area and matches the communication information stored contained in the memory dump information are collected at the same network logging process, upon receiving a network logging activation instruction; copying, by the network logging processing unit, the network logging file to the system area in the case where it is determined that all of the conditions are satisfied; writing, by the network logging processing unit, the communication information stored and maintained contained in the memory dump information to the copied network logging file; and restoring the network logging file at the time of system freezing.